Tilting bin and mounting for same



Marf 6, 1923.

A. G. SWAN. TILTING BIN AND MOUNTING FOR SAME.

FILED APR.5.1922;'

Patented Mar. 6, 1223.

ARTHUR G. SWAN, OF YAKIMA, WASHINGTON.

TILTING- BIN AN'D MOUNTING FOR SAME.

Application led April 5,

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ARTHUR G. SWAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yakima, in the county of Yakima and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tilting Bins and Muntings for Same, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved tilting bin and a mounting for the same. The object of the invention is to provide a tilting bin which may be bodily removed, with very little trouble, from its mountings, so that the bin may be easily cleaned or the weight of its contents quickly ascertained. This latter is a feature of great importance in taking inventory Where the c'ontents of` a large number of bins must be inventoried. In this caseit is not necessary to empty the bins but is only necessary to remove the bin bodily from its mounting together with its cgntents and to weigh the bin and contents and thereafter to subtract the known weight of the bin.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the detailed description which follows.

In ,the accompanying drawing :1

Fig. l is a perspective view of a bin of the character to which this invention rela-tes; and Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof.

In the drawing 5 designates a tilting bin such as is commonly employed in stores, such as grocery stores, feed stores and many others. The lower front corners of these bins are mounted to rock about a rod 6 and as ordinarily constructed the bins are not readily removable from their casing. In carrying out the invention, I mount a roller 7 in vertically movable bearing brackets 8, these bearing brackets being carried by vertical rods 9 which slide through horizontal extensions l0 of a fixed keeper plate 11. It will of course be understood that the structure is identical at each side of the bin and ably movable 'with its rod 9. These rods are normally pressed downwardly by springs 10- vhich bear between the undersides 'of the lower horizontal extensions 10 of the keeper plates 11 and nuts 12I which are threaded upon the lower ends of the rods 9 and whichl nuts serve to adjust the tension ofthe springs 12. Thus the roller 7 is causedto bear yieldingly upon the upper edge of thebinand 1922. serial No. 549,887'.l

impart such resistance to the movement of the pin as to prevent the same from opening or closing with a bang.

When it is desired to remove the bin as a whole the roller 7 will yield bodily upwardly to permit the bin to be lifted enough to free its lower front corner from the rod 6. Thereupon the bin may be lifted out along with its contents. In replacing the bin the lower rear corner of the bin is rst engaged with the rod 6, the roller 7 islifted and the bin is slipped in beneath the roller 7 and said roller is then released to permit it to be drawn downwardly by the spring 10 and be brought IiOnto engagement with the upper edges of the The provision of the nuts 12 renders it possible to properly adjust the tension of the roller 7. In other words, these nuts provide means for -determining the'degree of pressure with which the roller 7 will bear upon the upper edge of the bin. This is of importance since it is not necessary to have the 1. A tilting bin comprising a mounting for the lower front corner of said bin about which said bin rocks and a vertically-yieldable pressure element engageable with the upper edges ofthe bin and movable there- `over tending to hold the. bin into engagement withe said mounting'but yieldable to permit disengagement of the bin from said mounting. that each of the bearing brackets 8' is suit- 2. In combination a tilting bin, a rocking mounting for the lower front corner of saidA 4- I bin, a spring actuated vertically movable bearing and amember carriedby said bearl[ipg and bearing upon the upper edge of the A 3. In combination I,a tilting b in 'a rocking mountin for the lower front corner of said bin, a ro .ler traversing the topof said bin and bearmg upon the upper edges thereof and vertically yieldable brackets for said roller.

4. A structure as recited in claim 3 wherein said vertically yieldable bearing brackets are spring actuated and means for adjusting the `tension of -said spring.

5. In combination a tilting bin, a rocking mounting for-the lower front corner of said b in, fixed keeper plates, verticallymovable rods carried by said keeper plate; springs tending to thrust said rods downwardly,

means for adjusting the tension of said springs, bearing brackets carried by said rods and a roller mounted in said bearing brackets and bearing upon the upper edge of 1l said bin.

In .testimony whereof I aflx my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

K ARTHUR G. SWAN. Witnesses:

' TILLIE E. GEADTKE,

CoNstrANcE L. MACWAIN.' 

